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Stephen Downes

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I may not like them - they are, after all, undermining open source software. But they sure make the issues clear, even if their depiction of the other side reads like a caricature. SCO CEO Darl McBride "likened the notion of free software to a variety of movements including file sharing, the dot-com bubble, and even free love. He predicted that the proprietary and open-source worlds were on a 'collision course,' that would ultimately result in the end of the GPL license."

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